Googlers Chris Schalk and Jason Cooper will give us a technical overview on the new Java development possibilities with OpenSocial. They start by providing an architectural overview of Apache Shindig. Demonstrations will show how to use it as a local OpenSocial development server as well as how to customize it to plug into native social data. The talk will then shift from the server to the client and discuss the new OpenSocial Java Client Library and how it allows for direct communication to an OpenSocial server with Java. Finally this talk will show the latest work on creating mobile applications with Android that can communicate with an OpenSocial server.

Lightning Demos

During the networking hour, we invite our members that develop applications using Google Technology to do brief demos of 5 minutes or less. Please contact Van Riper to indicate your interest to demo your stuff. Time permitting, we will include as many demos as possible before the main event.

Agenda

• 6:00-6:30pm Arrive & mingle
  -- Food & drinks provided by Google
• 6:30-6:50pm Technology Demos by our members
• 6:50-7:00pm General Announcements
• 7:00-8:00pm Java Development with OpenSocial
• 8:00-9:00pm Q&A plus further networking after talk

Although this is a free event, we will be limiting attendance to a maximum of 200 attendees. For last minute updates on this event, please refer to the main meeting announcement on the Silicon Valley GTUG site..

Speakers

Christian Schalk is a Google Developer Advocate and works to promote Google's APIs and technologies. Before joining Google, Chris was a Principal Product Manager and technology evangelist at Oracle in the Java development tools group. Chris also co-authored the book: "JavaServer Faces, The Complete Reference" published through McGraw-Hill-Osborne. Chris has spoken on Web, Java and Ajax development at numerous Oracle, Java and Ajax conferences, as well as Google related events including Google Developer Day and at Google IO.

Jason Cooper works within Google's Developer Programs organization, supporting the OpenSocial-based orkut application platform. He is the primary author of the Java client library for OpenSocial which enables developers to build social applications using Java. He graduated from the University of Southern California in 2007 and currently resides in Silicon Valley.

Meeting Sponsor

We would like to thank Google for providing the venue and the refreshments for this meeting. In particular, we would like to thank Stephanie Liu for serving as our primary meeting support contact at Google.

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